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- Keratoma An area of hardened skin, usually called a callus
- Paralysis, vocal cord Paralysis, vocal cord: Inability of one or both vocal folds (vocal cords) to move. The paralysis is usually…
- Achromatopsia An hereditary disorder of sight due to a lack of cone vision - that type of vision provided by the cone…
- Grief Therapy for people who have unusually serious grief reactions. The goal of grief therapy is to identify and…
- Cholecystogram, oral See: Oral cholecystogram
- Bromism A disease caused by chronic exposure to bromine or one of its compounds. Bromism is characterized by mental…
- ABR test >Hearing integrity (and neurologic normalcy) in infants and young children. >Neurologic integrity (and…
- Gingivitis, acute membranous This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Amplification Making multiple copies of a gene or of any sequence of DNA. Repeated copying of a piece of DNA. In…
- Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease Diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease). Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease is a kidney condition associated with…
- Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia Acute nonlymphocytic leukemia: Abbreviated ANLL. More commonly called acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A quickly…